C1, FM 10-15 - BITS

1 C1, FM 10-15 . C1, FM 10-15 . i This publication supercedes FM 10-15 , 31 Jan 74, FM 38-741, 13 Jun 84 and FM 10-14-4, 7 May 87. C1, FM 10-15 . ii C1, FM 10-15 . iii C1, FM 10-15 . iv C1, FM 10-15 . v C1, FM 10-15 . vi C1, FM 10-15 . vii C1, FM 10-15 . viii C1, FM 10-15 . ix C1, FM 10-15 . PREFACE. PURPOSE. This field manual provides supply support activity officers with a handy guide. It covers critical mission task common to SSA officers. This manual is only a guide. It does not present all the information you need. However, it cites sources of additional information. SCOPE. This FM gives specific guidance on planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, and controlling supply support and field services.

2 It highlights DA requirements and provides time and personnel planning factors on which to base supervisory logistics decisions. This manual will be more useful to you if you adapt the information in it to your duty position and local policies and procedures. The task checklists are in chronological or logical sequence. You may find it helpful to enter a number in the task box to identify the priority you or higher headquarters places on that task. Also, you may want to darken those boxes next to the tasks performed by the materiel management center or those assigned to your section chiefs or platoon sergeant. Appendix A has a hotline of logistical agencies and activities.

3 RECOMMENDED CHANGES. The proponent for this publication is HQ TRADOC. Submit changes for improving this publication on DA Form 2028 (Recommended Changes to Publications and Blank Forms). Key your comments to the page, paragraph, and line of the text in which the change is recommended. Provide reasons for each comment to ensure understanding and complete evaluation. Forward the DA Form 2028 to- Commander US Army Quartermaster Center and School ATTN: ATSM-SPT-I. Fort Lee, Virginia 23801-5036. Unless otherwise stated, whenever the masculine gender is used, both men and women are included. x FM 10-15 . PART ONE SUPPLY OFFICERS AND LEADERS. CHAPTER 1. Supply Operations Officer DETERMINE YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES.

4 Success on tomorrow's battlefields may depend will depend on whether requests are for ASL or on the Army's ability to feed and clothe its NSL items and on the number of items in stock. fighting forces, fuel its combat vehicles, fortify its You must make. sure your SSA stocks the line positions, and replace its weapons systems. Your items demanded as part of your ASL and that office acts as the supply mission control element of stocks are on hand to fill requests upon demand. your unit. Depending on your unit's supply mis- DA objectives and acceptable management levels sion, you must ensure that food, water, clothing, are prescribed in AR 710-2, Chapter 1. The petroleum, barrier material, and major end items formulas for measuring demand satisfaction is are available when and where they are needed.

5 Covered later in this chapter. You may even determine the quantity and types of items to be stored in distribution or supply points. A major concern will be ASL size versus mobility DETERMINE AND MONITOR ASL SIZE. requirements. A supply platoon can receive as Your main concern is that your SSA will be able many as 5,000 demands per month for stocked to supply supported units upon demand or within items and 1,000 demands for nonstocked items. acceptable time limits. The problem is that your You are responsible for coordinating with your SSA cannot stock all demand-supported items and MMC or SCS, operating platoons, supported units, still remain mobile. Table 1-1 lists ASL stockage and higher sources of supply to ensure that criteria.

6 Your tasks are listed below. demands are met. While the MMC or SCS manages Review the ASL semiannually for potential your supply assets, your soldiers prepare and reductions in range. process stock accounting and stock location Monitor the quarterly ASL continually to records for all supplies received, stored, and issued determine and drop nonessential lines. from your unit supply and storage elements. You Review action codes on the ASL change list will need to learn how to use computer listings to which recommend addition, deletion, or retention monitor DIs, MROs, and DOs to identify problem of items. DS4 makes automatic increases to ASL. areas. You will also be concerned with the security lines.

7 Of ADP software and hardware and contingency Analyze the impact of stockage level changes planning for ADPE outages. on movement and storage requirements. Ask the supply manager to set minimum DETERMINE DEMAND SATISFACTION RO and ROP quantities, so that automated supply The mission of the SSA is to supply supported systems will not be adjusted below the set units. How well your unit provides this support minimum. 1-1. FM 10-15 . program items, field returns, and captured and unwanted material. Review the current DI file list. Select DIs to be canceled. Select the most recent DIs with the lowest priority first. Have stock control soldiers process MROs, materiel release confirmation cards, shipping documents (if required), and possible partial cancellations.

8 DS4 processing instructions are in TM 38-L32-13. Request disposition instructions as directed by your command. COORDINATE AND MONITOR. STOCK ACCOUNTING AND. STOCK CONTROL OPERATIONS. If you do not know the NSN of an item or if an item is not listed on the AMDF, contact the following: Management Information Research Assistance Center US Army Materiel Command Catalog Data Activity New Cumberland Army Depot New Cumberland, PA 17070-5010. AUTOVON: 977-7431. COMMERCIAL: (717) 782-7431. As the supply operations officer, you must periodi- tally review the preparation and submission of REDUCE EXCESS STOCKS stock accounting and stock control records kept by your materiel control specialists.

9 Your ability to Excess stocks are those which exceed the review stock records and listings produced by your authorized retention level. DA policy requires that MMC or SCS will help improve supply responsive- automated systems run the process monthly to ness to supported units. Your tasks are listed determine excess. During wartime, this process is below. run at the option of the local command. DS level Have personnel review requests for excessive automated systems produce an excess report list quantities, questionable prices, and old document and a deck of candidate cancellation cards. dates. Sample DS4 formats are in TM 38-L32-13. Note Review supporting document files for that excess quantities are not automatically reasons for rejections from higher supply sources.

10 Canceled. SSAs must determine which recommen- Make it SOP that personnel classify work by dations to accept and which to reject. In wartime, priority of request. when demands are unpredictable and stocks are Ensure that your office personnel are com- expected to be used, it may not be wise to dispose of paring requests against the ASL, SSSC, RX, QSS, all excess stocks. Depending on the extended and controlled-item listings. price, the owning SSA may retain excess stocks in Monitor MRO processing times (see DSUs or GSUs until they can be issued as Table 1-2). interchangeable or substitute items or until their Review reasons for MRDs. price exceeds the amount prescribed in AR 710-2, Ensure that inventory count cards are Chapter 3, Your tasks are listed below.